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PLOS GENETICS
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007843
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- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation [GAT2962]
- BBSRC [BB/L006847/1]
- BBSRC-Meiogenix IPA grant [BB/N007557/1]
- ERC 'SynthHotSpot' Consolidator Grant
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61403318]
- EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship [ALT 807-2009]
- RDA Next-Generation BioGreen 21 Program [PJ01337001]
- NRF Basic Science Research Program [NRF-2017R1D1AB03028374]
- Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
- Gatsby Foundation Sainsbury studentship [GAT3401]
- BBSRC [BB/K007882/1, BB/N007557/1, BB/L006847/1, BB/M004937/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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During meiosis, chromosomes undergo DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), which can be repaired using a homologous chromosome to produce crossovers. Meiotic recombination frequency is variable along chromosomes and tends to concentrate in narrow hotspots. We mapped crossover hotspots located in the Arabidopsis thaliana RAC1 and RPP13 disease resistance genes, using varying haplotypic combinations. We observed a negative non-linear relationship between interhomolog divergence and crossover frequency within the hotspots, consistent with polymorphism locally suppressing crossover repair of DSBs. The fancm, recq4a recq4b, figl1 and msh2 mutants, or lines with increased HEI10 dosage, are known to show increased crossovers throughout the genome. Surprisingly, RAC1 crossovers were either unchanged or decreased in these genetic backgrounds, showing that chromosome location and local chromatin environment are important for regulation of crossover activity. We employed deep sequencing of crossovers to examine recombination topology within RAC1, in wild type, fancm, recq4a recq4b and fancm recq4a recq4b backgrounds. The RAC1 recombination landscape was broadly conserved in the anti-crossover mutants and showed a negative relationship with interhomolog divergence. However, crossovers at the RAC1 5'-end were relatively suppressed in recq4a recq4b backgrounds, further indicating that local context may influence recombination outcomes. Our results demonstrate the importance of interhomolog divergence in shaping recombination within plant disease resistance genes and crossover hotspots.
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